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    Using blockchain technology to improve the collaboration in trucking industry : a design science research
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Alaçam, Serkan.; Sencer, Aslı.
    The global trucking industry has been suffering from chronic problems for a long time, such as high levels of carbon emissions, driver shortages, and extended payment wait times. This study acknowledges the need for more innovative technology solutions to address those problems based on trucking industry reports. We investigate how blockchain technology can eliminate or reduce the role of intermediaries in trucking operations and improve collaboration among shippers and carriers. In our design constructs, we extend the transportation control tower concept from the literature by operationalizing it in a decentralized fashion on the consortium and public blockchain architectures. We evaluate the technical feasibility of our design constructs with experienced blockchain engineers. In addition, we review our design constructs with trucking industry professionals to assess how successful they would be in removing the barriers to collaboration among shippers and carriers. The evaluation results show that shippers and medium and large carriers are interested in using blockchain technology to eliminate trust- related concerns and execute more collaborative trucking operations. Even though owner-operators prefer consortium blockchains over public blockchains due to competition concerns, they are still willing to join public blockchains for finding loads and managing trucking operations if shippers prefer using public blockchains over consortium blockchains. On the other hand, as an emerging technology, blockchain needs time to address critical problems such as identity management, scalability, the privacy of transactions, and compliance with data protection regulations.